Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “internet”

We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs | Teen Vogue

teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs

In this op-ed, Lauren Michele Jackson tackles the recurring use of black people as reaction GIFs and its implications in terms of broader “digital blackface.”

About txt.fyi

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This is the dumbest publishing platform on the web. Write something, hit publish, and it's live. There's no tracking, ad-tech, webfonts, analytics, javascript, cookies, databases, user accounts, comments, friending, likes, follower counts or other quantifiers of social capital. The only practical way for anyone to find out about a posting is if the author links to it elsewhere.

Public Suffix List

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Watch YouTube & Vimeo videos frame by frame

watchframebyframe.com/

André Staltz - An off-grid social network

staltz.com/an-off-grid-social-network.html

User Interface Programmer

Aral Balkan — Encouraging individual sovereignty and a healthy commons

ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/

A Surreal Trip to a Domain-Names Conference - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/domain-names-dot-horse/516438/

… where misspelled URLs are auctioned off for tens of thousands of dollars. Ingrid Burrington

Most of the web really sucks if you have a slow connection

danluu.com/web-bloat/

gchq/BoilingFrogs: GCHQ's internal Boiling Frogs research paper on software development and organisational change in the face of disruption #boilingfrogs

github.com/gchq/BoilingFrogs

The pace of disruptive change is increasing, from the rise of cloud technology, social business, the Internet of Things and others. We feel it as much as other government departments and so we offer this internal research paper publicly, not to present policy or guidelines, but to stimulate debate.

How to disagree

paulgraham.com/disagree.html

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Matrix is an open standard for decentralised communication, providing simple HTTP APIs and open source reference implementations for securely distributing and persisting JSON over an open federation of servers.